There must be some reason....Can anybody post it here?
Why D flip flop is widely used in ASIC?
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On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 05:26:59 -0800 (PST) Ajab <jasusvijay@yahoo.com> wrote:> There must be some reason....Can anybody post it here?As opposed, may I ask, to what? JK flops? C gates? Maxwell's daemons? Specificity of question leads to specificity of answer. -- Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology Email address is currently out of order
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Ajab wrote:> There must be some reason....Can anybody post it here?Homework question? Probably because they were widely used in discrete logic design for the 20 or 30 years before ASIC's
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Ajab wrote:> There must be some reason....Can anybody post it here?Probably because it uses the least amount of chip area of any of the candidates for storing a bit. And _that's_ probably because it's close to a SRAM cell, so there's been intense work over many years in making it as small and cheap as possible. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com Do you need to implement control loops in software? "Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" gives you just what it says. See details at http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html
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On Nov 3, 12:21 pm, Tim Wescott <t...@seemywebsite.com> wrote:> Probably because it uses the least amount of chip area of any of the > candidates for storing a bit.Lumped element logic design is so last year...
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Because of META stability, looks like homework so please use this Hint to investigate On 2008-11-03 14:26:59 +0100, Ajab <jasusvijay@yahoo.com> said:> There must be some reason....Can anybody post it here?
Reply by ●November 3, 20082008-11-03
Rob Gaddi wrote:> Ajab <jasusvijay@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> There must be some reason....Can anybody post it here? > > As opposed, may I ask, to what? JK flops? C gates? Maxwell's > daemons? Specificity of question leads to specificity of answer.Well, for some things my primary reason is hunger. For some others it may be tiredness. Then there is boredom. HTH. -- [mail]: Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net) [page]: <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net> Try the download section.
